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Its well written and well argued. I think its strong on a lot of the background to the Western world view. My points of disagreements would revolve around that being over-emphasised though. Yes it's an idea we're fighting but what about the history of that idea itself? What about the history of Islamism and the history of the Middle East? Syria, Iraq, Libya etc. and violent Islam have stories to tell beyond Western policy and Western ideology and those things do not adequately explain everything that has happened. A lot of Middle Eastern countries have battled Islamist insurgencies for decades and decades, and the history of the region has always been an incredibly bloody and fractious one. I don't say that in a sneering way because the same is obviously true of Europe as well but plenty of Islamic nations have similar histories of conquest, imperialism and Empire: it is not all manufactured by the West. We have made mistakes in our attempts to confront the problem but we did not create it imo.